Rangers fans group the Union Bears have released a video of a range of touching tributes to football players who lost their lives in World War I.
The group took to stadiums across the country on Remembrance Sunday to paint tributes to fallen soldiers who played for teams including Rangers, Celtic and Hearts.
The video is accompanied by the song Sing for the Boys (Jimmy’s Song) by Alan Brydon which was written in tribute to former Rangers player Jimmy Spiers.
Govan born Spiers – who also played for Maryhill, Clyde, Bradford City, Leeds United and Scotland – died in the conflict after a proud military career.
Spiers would join enlist the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in 1915 – at the end of the 1914/15 season – and would rise through the ranks in the British Army.
Corporal Spiers was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in May 1917 at the Second Battle of the Arras and promoted to Sergeant in June.
The inside forward was killed a month later at the Battle of Passchendaele and is buried at Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, near Ypres in Belgium.
Spiers played for Rangers between 1905 and 1908, enjoying a season at Clyde before moving to Bradford in 1909 and famously scoring the winning goal for the club in the 1911 FA Cup Final.
The inside forward would then move to Leeds United, for whom he played for in 1915.
Spiers name was stencilled on a wall at Ibrox by the Union Bears alongside a silhouette of a British solider from World War I.
The names of ex-Rangers players John Fleming and Walter Tull were also stencilled around Glasgow in tribute to the footballers who lost their lives in the Great War.
The group also took to stadiums across the country where they paid tribute to a range of ex-footballers-turned-soldiers who lost their lives in the conflict.
These include ex-Hibs and Hearts star Robert Atherton, ex-Hearts player Duncan Currie, former Falkirk youngster John Ramsay, ex-Clyde forward Charles Clunas, ex-Killie players Daniel McKellar and Alexander Barrie, Queen’s Park Eddie Garvie, Partick Thistle’s George Allan, St. Mirren’s George Elmore and Celtic’s Willie Angus.
